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Something you’re probably aware of by now, unless you live in a cave or exclusively get your news from @realDonaldTrump and his big boy sons, is that there’s a very contagious disease ravaging the globe that is not just killing more than a million people but jobs and businesses as well. Jobs, for the lazy

A little over three years ago, right before his first trip to South Africa for the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders exhibition, Michele Roberts, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), gave her first and only book recommendation to Brown. “It was Mandela’s autobiography,” Roberts tells me with a laugh. “I said, ‘You

When Donald Trump tasked Rudy Giuliani with spearheading his legal effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, it was obviously the final nail in the coffin of this extremely sad attempt to overthrow democracy. While Giuliani started his career as a federal prosecutor, of late his professional activities have involved trying and failing

The 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, one of the most widely-watched royal events in history, gets little more than a few minutes of airtime in The Crown season 4. Creator Peter Morgan and co. were far more interested in delving into the challenging marriage between the couple, played by Josh O’Connor and

Kent thinks left-leaning pileups and hashtags like #FireGinaCarano are partially responsible for escalating tensions: “These newest tweets, expressing doubt and resentment about COVID and masks and the election, there’s nothing new here.” But, Kent added, “Gina Carano’s not making things better for conservative fans who want to feel welcome when they go to fan conventions

An independent, Montreal-made music video has defeated Beyoncé to win the 2020 UK Music Video Awards prize for best choreography. Artist Sheenah Ko came together with a team of about a dozen dancers to create a short film that took down pop royalty. “I was trying to manifest it that morning. I was like, ‘Yeah,

The drama surrounding the Wayne County Board of Canvassers continues, as the Republican members attempt to “rescind” their votes to certify the presidential results from the Michigan county. This comes after the vote was deadlocked 2-2, with Republicans attempting to disenfranchise Detroit voters, the majority of which are Black. It was a nakedly racist and

After listing a new date, then bumping it twice, Wonder Woman 1984 will be dropping into homes on Christmas Day. All you need is HBO Max. The sequel to the DC superhero epic has most recently been set to debut in theaters on Dec. 25, but with coronavirus cases surging instead of fading nine months

2020 marks GQ’s 25th annual Men of the Year issue. And while it’s been a hell of a challenging year, the issue’s cover stars have brightened the dark moments: Megan Thee Stallion, George Clooney, and Trevor Noah.  The Rapper: Megan Thee Stallion How much has Megan dominated our brainspaces this year? She hit us with

After spending the past four years in a codependent-relationship haze with the outgoing president, Fox News now has some programming decisions to make regarding where it will aim its outrage gun once Donald “Golden Goose” Trump is no longer around as much to power its content cycle. While the president, who appears nearly ready to

The Lucille Clifton citation that opens Danielle Evans’s new short story collection—“this past was waiting for me / when i came,”—bespeaks a world in which characters are saddled with burdens that precede them. Contending with the past, with problems beyond the scope of their own lives, shapes this nuanced cast of protagonists—and often spurs them

Last week, Donald Trump suffered an embarrassing setback in his already embarrassing attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, when the law firm leading the legal effort to challenge the results in Pennsylvania withdrew from a suit it had filed on behalf of the campaign, followed by a similar move by another firm

There’s nothing sexier than being funny, which is why it’s extremely right and perfect that Schitt’s Creek star and writer Dan Levy has earned a spot in People magazine’s 2020 Sexiest Man Alive issue. Now, he’s not the Sexiest Man alive, but one of them. The cover guy will be revealed tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live,

Any follicles that were dried up and dead—of which there were many—will never come back again. But that being said, I run my hands through my hair now and can feel it much fuller and denser than a few years ago, back when my alarm finally went off. And other people noticed, too, saying things

In Williamsburg’s Domino Park last Saturday, Ranin Karim, the 34-year-old woman who played a small but significant role in the downfall of one of America’s most famous pastors, sat overlooking the East River. Five months earlier, just a few social distancing circles over, she had met Carl Lentz, the former pastor of the celebrity-friendly Hillsong

Taylor Swift is speaking out following news that Scooter Braun unloaded her master recordings from the Big Machine Label Group for more than US$300 million. “For the past year I’ve been actively trying to regain ownership of my master recordings,” she began in a statement posted to Twitter on Monday. Been getting a lot of

Nova Scotia is on Monday sending off this year’s Tree for Boston. The event will take place at 1 p.m. indoors at the Cunard Centre in Halifax, hosted by Communities, Culture and Heritage Minister Suzanne Lohnes-Croft and U.S. Consul Andrea Wiktowy. This year’s Tree for Boston is dedicated to those who are working on the

While Donald Trump is obviously solely responsible for the psychotic and mortifying postelection tantrum he’s been throwing for the past two weeks, a shit fit akin to watching a fellow supermarket shopper ram his cart into a display of Diet Coke and smash a dozen glass jars of pickles on the ground because he was

The Crown‘s fourth season is stuffed with highly anticipated dramatizations of famous moments, but two of the most notable—Charles and Diana’s engagement, and their wedding—take place largely off-camera. Charles’s proposal unfolds secondhand, through a delightful sequence of intercut phone conversations between Charles, the queen, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne, and the Queen Mother. From those conversations,

By Staff The Associated Press Posted November 16, 2020 10:53 am     Updated November 16, 2020 12:14 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney on Monday completed a $2.5 million takeover of a Welsh club that plays in the fifth

In terms of internet conversations that just won’t die, the “student loan forgiveness is bad, actually” argument has to be one of the most insufferable. It seems every six months or so (and I’m being really generous with that “or so” because no one has any ability to estimate time anymore), this subject pops back

Even a decade after her departure, Katherine Heigl and Grey’s Anatomy can’t seem to quit each other. In a new interview published Friday by the Los Angeles Times, showrunner Krista Vernoff said that Heigl’s character, Dr. Izzie Stevens, was set to receive a farewell episode before Heigl allegedly failed to show up to work. “On

The family of actor Sinbad confirmed on Monday the comedian is recovering from a recent stroke. The Adkins family — Sinbad’s birth name is David Adkins — said in a statement to The Associated Press that “it is out of sincere love that we share Sinbad, our beloved husband and father, is recovering from a

So many people have this deep-seated fear of boredom. It is an emotional state that we avoid at all costs. Part of that is the existential crises that boredom might evoke within us. Part of us fear that waiting is a reflection of the fact that maybe life is just about time passing. That is